AI Detection Firm Pangram Launches Gmail Extension to Identify and Filter AI-Generated Emails
Pangram released a Gmail browser extension that scans inboxes to detect AI-generated emails and offers auto-filtering options.
AI text detection company Pangram launched a new Gmail browser extension on November 10, 2026, designed to help users identify emails generated by tools like ChatGPT and Claude. The feature requires a Pangram subscription and automatically scans the latest 100 emails plus incoming messages, classifying them as "likely AI-generated," "human-written," or "mixed content."
Beyond identification, the extension allows users to set automation rules, such as moving detected AI emails directly to archive or spam folders, and excluding specific domains or senders to prevent misclassification of private communications. Pangram claims that analyzed email content is not stored and will not be used to train its AI models.
Wired journalist David Nield tested the tool on his personal Gmail account. Of the 108 emails analyzed, Pangram flagged 8 as AI-generated, 37 as human-written, and the rest as mixed. Nield noted that emails from friends, family, and colleagues were correctly identified as human, and a test email he wrote using Microsoft Copilot was accurately classified. However, this result is based on a single user's self-test and lacks large-scale independent benchmark verification.